A Bad Attitude: A Novel from the Vietnam War

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What Breed of Liberal I Am

My Liberal Identity:

You are a New Left Hipster, also known as a MoveOn.org liberal, Netroots activist, or Daily Show fanatic. You believe that if we really want to defend American values, conservative hatriots must be exposed and mocked for every fanatical, puritanical, soulless, paranoid, fact-free, obstructionist ideal for which they stand.

More Quotations

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

-- Henry Kissinger

"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist."

-- Archbishop Helder Camara

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

-- Voltaire

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."

-- Malcolm X

"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

-- Eric Hoffer

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross."

-- Sinclair Lewis

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people."

-- Adolph Hitler

"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute--where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."

-- President John F. Kennedy

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."

-- Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine, 1615,during the trial of Galileo

"Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely-powerful infinitely-knowledgeable universe-spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life."

-- Andrew Lias

"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life."

-- Sigmund Freud

"All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"It is in no way lawful to demand, to defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing, or of religion, as if they were so many rights that nature has given to man."

-- Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846)

"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts of tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us."

Support Free Speech

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Okay, maybe it was a cheap shot. But it was a good one nonetheless. An actual constituent of Virginia's George Allen (R-Macaca) named Michael Stark had the temerity to ask the blowhard senator at a campaign stop "Why did you spit on your first wife, George?" For his efforts, he was roughed up by several Allen bodyguardsthugs supporters who grabbed him in a choke hold and wrestled him to the ground.

Okay, so it's a first cousin to "have you stopped beating your wife", and in the words of Allen's first wife, a "baseless cheap shot", but is anyone really willing to go to the mat on it being baseless? After all, Allen and wife number one, acting in collusion, petitioned to have the divorce records sealed.

And that, in itself, ought to raise some red flags with the media.

But leave it to the SCLM: They just waltzed on by -- "lah de dah, doo-de-dah, nothing more to see here" -- only to pounce on the dirty tricks campaign launched by the Allen camp when the publicized the allegedly salacious excerpts of several of Jim Webb's novels. (BTW, the wingnuts have got a lot of fucking nerve on that score--I don't see them publicizing any of that steamy girl-on-girl sex from Lynn Cheney's Lesbian Love Sisters stories).

Anyway, back to Mike Stark. He is a resident of Virginia and he had a right to ask his senator a question; Allen's thugs went way overboard in their overreaction to the question. After all, at this point in the campaign Allen ought to be prepared for anything.

But it just goes to show you: The Rethugs can dish it out but they sure can't take it.

3 Comments:

He was on Olbermann tonight. I expected "I'm gonna sue their asses off....". I heard nothing of the sort. In fact, he said the Allen camp "Was investigating pursuing charges against him." For what? Asking questions while living in Virginia??

At least you show some shame and don't totally make Stark out to be a hero/victim. Still your take is totally bogus.

The DNC & Webb have been using bloggers and volunteers to dog Allen the whole campaign. Jabbing & baiting to get reaction and a phony scandal. Why? Because the Democrats stand for nothing that Virginians will support.

Note that when Allen screwed up and fell to mimicking Democrat tactics with the novel passages it backfired on him. Conservatives don't like off-topic mud slinging. We want hard hitting truth. We're looking to smack you assholes in the face not clock you from behind.

As for Stark. He should be tackled and subdued anytime he shows his mug.

I love how you anti-american bastards make a big deal of him being a Marine. Big deal. There's a few million of them. Just like you, there's a rotten apple or two in every barrel.

Little Richard, I am totally without shame. Like the rest of us over here on the left, I don't need it.And I'd like to know when YOU were in the military. If you were (which I doubt), you swore an oath to uphold the constitution.Part of that constitution includes a little concept we rotten apples over here on the anti-american terrorist-loving side like to call "free speech". And that includes being able to ask pointed questions of a public figure without being tackled by Brownshirt thugs.It's funny how you claim you don't like mud-slinging, but then you turn right around and call me an asshole.And you claim to want to smack me and the other assholes in the face, not from behind, but I see that you're conveniently hiding behind an anonymous post.So, short answer: Piss off, little man. I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.